Read-Aloud Roundup Volume 5, Issue 3 October 2017 Unveiling our Updated Kid Zone Applewhites Coast to Coast Book Bites: The Answer to Your Quest for Great Books Crimebiters! The End of Five Kingdoms Fall for Kid Lit Coffee Break Hopgood Will Have You Singing in the Rain Huff and Puff at Crafty Characters My Little Pony: The Movie — Friendship Comes in Many Colors Pumpkin Power Trick or Treat! The Wild Robot Escapes Untangle the Web www.bystanderrevolution.org/ Search this site to find ideas about how to deal with bully- ing from folks who have been bullies, targets and bystand- ers. Watch videos by subject and sign up to take your own stand against bullying! APProved Geoboard Learners stretch bands around the pegs to form line segments and polygons and make discoveries about perimeter, area, angles, congruence, fractions, and more. FREE / iPhone & iPad The Tiny Hero of Ferny Creek Library by Linda Bailey Eddie, a passionate reader and a shiny green bug, saves the school library in this funny, heartwarming tale for fans of Flora & Ulysses and Charlotte’s Web. And the Robot Went . . . by Michelle Robinson Teamwork + trial and error = a happy robot and an ear-splitting racket. Review the New The War I Finally Won by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley Ada’s first story, The War That Saved My Life, won a Newbery Honor and the Schneider Family Book Award. This novel continues her powerful, uplifting journey set during World War II. When Ada’s clubfoot is surgically fixed at last, she knows for certain that she’s not what her mother said she was: damaged, crippled mentally as well as physically. Who is Ada now? How can she keep fighting? And who will she struggle to save? The Blog Log www.hooverlibrary.org/blog students will have to be with their adults to check them out. We are asking for each family to limit themselves to two games per checkout. This may change as we expand our collection. Elementary games available: Catan Junior Connect 4 Dr. Eureka Dweebies Flashlights & Fireflies Forbidden Island Ghost Fightin’ Treasure Hunters Happy Salmon The Hare and the Tortoise Hey, That’s My Fish! Karuba Kingdomino Kitty Paw Labyrinth Lift It Deluxe Lucky Dogs Master Fox Mole Rats in Space Monster Factory Monza My First Stone Age Outfoxed Qwirkle Rabbit Rally Rat a Tat Cat Rhino Hero Robot Turtles Scrabble Secret Code 13+4 Sleeping Queens Spot It! Party Sushi Go Taco Takeover Wig Out Hoover Public Library recently redesigned the Kid Zone. There’s new carpeting and rearranged bookshelves. We created a more open space for study and learning . . . and added LEGO tables! We also completed a long-awaited movie project. All children’s DVDs and Blu-Rays are now shelved in alphabetical order by three letters, making it easy to locate your favorite titles. And we’re very excited to announce our new circulating board game collection. We have 47 board games available for checkout. They are shelved in a special display across from the main Kid Zone desk. Each game can be checked out for one week. You must be at least fifteen years old to check out a game, which means your